Unit 6

Unit 6: The Twentieth Century (1914 - Present)

This unit will be divided up into two parts. The first part will focus on the world wars (chapters 23-26). You will complete a project and present for a unit test grade. The second part will focus on the world after the wars (chapters 27-31). You will have a unit test on these chapters.






Unit 6 Day 1
Topics: Nationalism, Alliance System, Militarism, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Serbia, mobilization, Schlieffen Plan, Western Front, trench warfare, US entry, total war

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze how militarism, nationalism, and a crisis in the Balkans led to World War I.
• Assess trench warfare on the Western Front and the impact the stalemate had on nations involved.

Quickwrite: Record what you notice about the map and chart on p. 759.

Homework: Read Ch. 23.3 & 23.4

Unit 6 Day 2
Topics: Russian Revolution, soviets, Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, communism, armistice, Paris Peace Talks, Fourteen Points, Treaty of Versailles, reparations, War Guilt Clause

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the impact of the Russian Revolution on the Great War.
• Evaluate the peace negotiations after the war.

Quickwrite: Using pages 770-771 for reference, describe the trench warfare of World War I.

World War Documentaries

Homework: Read Ch. 24.1 & 24.2

Unit 6 Day 3
Topics: League of Nations, Dawes Plan, Great Depression, deficit spending, totalitarianism, fascism, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco,
Adolf Hitler, Enabling Act, state police, Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, Third Reich, propaganda

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess the effects of the Great Depression on democratic nations after World War I.
• Analyze the dictatorships that emerged after World War I.
• Assess the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.

Quickwrite: Analyze the map on page 791 and answer the "Geography Skills" question #1.

Homework: Read Ch. 24.3 & 24.4

Unit 6 Day 4
Topics: Adolf Hitler, Enabling Act, state police, Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, Third Reich, propaganda, surrealism, uncertainty principle

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.
• Analyze the role of anti-Semitic ideas in the rise of Hitler.

Quickwrite: Based on the excerpt on page 805, what is the meaning of the swastika?

Homework: Read Ch. 25.1 & 25.2

Unit 6 Day 5
Topics: End of the Ottoman Empire, Armenian genocide, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Pan-Africanism, civil disobedience, decline of imperialism, Japanese militarism

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess the rise of nationalism in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
• Analyze how the rise of nationalism in these areas led to independence movements.

Quickwrite: What was the problem in Palestine after the First World War?

Homework: Read Ch. 25.3 & 25.4

Unit 6 Day 6
Topics: Chinese Nationalist Party, Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, United Fruit Company, Good Neighbor Policy, authoritarian rule in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Evaluate the struggle between Chinese Nationalists and Communists after the fall of the Qing.
• Assess how the Great Depression made politics unstable in Latin America, resulting in military dictatorships.

Quickwrite: The Nationalists and Communists worked together in China to overthrow the Qing emperor and drive out foreign imperialist powers. Why did they soon turn against each other?

Homework: Read Ch. 26.1 & 26.2

Unit 6 Day 4
Topics: German expansion, appeasement, Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, invasion of Poland, invasion of Manchuria, Pearl Harbor, blitzkrieg, Stalingrad, North Africa, Battle of Midway, D-Day, Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Learning Objectives:
Students will:

• Assess the ambitions of Germany and Japan that led to another World War.
• Analyze the course of the war and how Allied powers were able to defeat Germany and Japan.

Quickwrite: What territories did Germany annex from 1935 to 1939? (p. 857)

Homework: Read Ch. 26.3 & 26.4

Unit 6 Day 5
Topics: Concentration camps, Einsatzgruppen, death camps, Final Solution, Holocaust, home fronts, city bombings, Cold War, Big Three, Iron Curtain

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the development and impact of the Holocaust.
• Assess the impacts of World War II around the world.

Quickwrite: What do you notice about the map and chart on page 875?

Homework: Read Ch. 27.1

Unit 6 Day 6
Topics: Superpowers, NATO, Warsaw pact, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, arms race, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, domino theory

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the development of the Cold War at the conclusion of World War II.
• Evaluate reasons for US foreign policy decisions after WWII.

Quickwrite: What do you notice about the map and chart on page 875?

Homework: World Wars Projects Due Tomorrow!!

Unit 6 Day 10
Topics: Superpowers, NATO, Warsaw pact, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, arms race, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, domino theory

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the development of the Cold War at the conclusion of World War II.
• Evaluate reasons for US foreign policy decisions after WWII.

Quickwrite: What do you notice about the map and chart on page 875?

Homework: Read Ch. 27.2 & 27.3

Unit 6 Day 11
Topics: de-Stalinization, Eastern Bloc, East and West Germany (Berlin), consumer society, social upheaval, civil rights, women's liberation

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess the effects of Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
• Assess how post-World War II Western Europe and North America rebuilt their economies and societies.

Quickwrite: Analyze the graphic on page 911. What is the main difference between a command economy and a market economy?

Homework: Read Ch. 28.1 & 28.2

Unit 6 Day 12
Topics: Detente, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, perestroika, Berlin Wall, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union.
• Assess popular revolutions that ended communist regimes in Eastern Europe.

Quickwrite: What new countries developed from the Soviet Union? (see p. 931)

Homework: Read Ch. 28.3 & 28.4

Unit 6 Day 13
Topics: European Union, German reunification, Thatcherism, Reagan Revolution, 9/11, space race, women's liberation, globalization, cultural imperialism

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Summarize developments in Europe and North America during the second half of the 20th century.
• Identify changes in Western society, technology and culture during this period.

Quickwrite: What conflict drastically affected the world economy in the late 1970s?

Homework: Read Ch. 29.1 & 29.2

Unit 6 Day 14
Topics: PRI; debt crisis; privatization; NAFTA; Cuban Revolution; civil war in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, and Guatemala

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess economic, political, and cultural developments in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century.
• Analyze crises after World War II that limited development in Mexico and Central America.

Quickwrite: Using the map on page 967, summarize the general political trend in Central America during this period.

Homework: Read Ch. 29.3

Unit 6 Day 15
Topics: Politics and crises in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze developments in South America during the second half of the 20th century.

Quickwrite: Using the map on page 973, summarize the general political trend in South America during this period.

Homework: Read Ch. 30.1 & 30.2

Unit 6 Day 16
Topics: Decolonization, apartheid, African Union, economic crises, AIDS, Rwandan genocide, Nelson Mandela, violence in the Congo and Sudan, Arab-Israeli dispute, West Bank, Yom Kippur War, OPEC, PLO, Iranian Revolution, Persian Gulf War, al-Qaeda, 9/11

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze challenges faced by newly independent nations of Africa.
• Evaluate ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and attempts to mediate the violence.

Quickwrite: Written after WWII, what did the Charter of the United Nations state about colonies?

Homework: Read Ch. 31.1 & 31.2

Unit 6 Day 17

Topics: Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Tienanmen Square, Korean War, Nixon's visit, principle of nonalignment, Pakistan, Vietnam independence and war

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Analyze the political and economic developments of Communist China.
• Evaluate independence and conflict in South and Southeast Asia.

Quickwrite: Analyze the map and timeline on page 1013 and answer "Geography Skills" question #2.

Homework: Read Ch. 31.3

Unit 6 Day 18
Topics: "Japanese miracle," state capitalism, "Asian tigers"

Learning Objectives:
Students will

• Assess the economic and political changes in Japan after World War II.
• Analyze the postwar economic success of the four "Asian tigers."

Quickwrite: How was Japanese society changed during Allied occupation from 1945-1952?

Homework: Study for test on Ch. 27-31.

Unit 6 Test Day
Homework: Gather & organize notes for final exam review.

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